Sensor communication network for searching virtual resources

A data computing system, comprising:

• a plurality of servers, at least one server being deployed with a deployed virtual machine;
• and
• a plurality of sensor hardware devices, wherein each given sensor hardware device is mounted on a corresponding server and comprises:
• a communication unit, wherein the communication unit communicates with communication units of other sensor hardware devices so that the given sensor hardware device and other sensor hardware devices form a communication network, and wherein the communication unit receives a searching request for a requested virtual machine, the searching request containing an identifier of the requested virtual machine;
• a location information calculating unit, wherein the location information calculating unit dynamically calculates and stores location information of the given sensor hardware device, wherein the location information is calculated based on a detected current location of the sensor hardware device relative to the locations of the other sensor hardware devices in the communication network;
• a virtual machine information acquiring unit, wherein the virtual machine information acquiring unit communicates with its corresponding server where the given sensor acquires an identifier of a deployed virtual machine deployed on the corresponding server;
• a virtual machine information storing unit, wherein the virtual machine information storing unit stores the identifier of the deployed virtual machine acquired by the virtual machine information acquiring unit;
• and
• a virtual machine information searching unit, wherein the virtual machine information searching unit searches the virtual machine information storing unit for the identifier of the requested virtual machine, and returns the location information calculated by the location information calculating unit if the identifier of the requested virtual machine is found.

A server data processing system, comprising:

• at least one central processing unit;
• an operating system running on the at least one central processing unit;
• a hypervisor that manages one or more virtual machines deployed on the server data processing system;
• and
• a sensor hardware device,
• wherein the sensor hardware device communicates with other sensor hardware devices so that the sensor hardware device and other sensor hardware devices form a communication network and receives a searching request for a requested virtual machine, the searching request containing an identifier of the requested virtual machine;
• dynamically calculates and stores location information of the sensor hardware device, wherein the location information is calculated based on a detected current location of the sensor hardware device relative to the locations of the other sensor hardware devices in the communication network;
• acquires an identifier of a deployed virtual machine within the one or more virtual machines deployed on the server data processing system;
• stores the identifier of the deployed virtual machine in a virtual machine information storing unit;
• searches the virtual machine information storing unit for the identifier of the requested virtual machine;
• and
• returns the location information calculated by the location information calculating unit if the identifier of the requested virtual machine is found.